e-Textbooks and e-learning technologies have become ubiquitous in college university courses as faculty seek out ways to provide more engaging, flexible customizable learning opportunities for students. However, the same that support can serve a source of frustration. Research on frustration with technology is limited, especially educational settings. This study examined student e-textbooks fac...

This is a précis of a book on frustration theory, whose explanatory domain includes a family of phenomena that have been summarized by the terms dispositional learning and memory-systems that ordinarily have a long-term historical etiology, and in which the learning is relatively reflexive and the memory implicit and not strongly episodic. The book is an attempt, in the context of stimulus-resp...

– We report a novel mechanism for the occurrence of chaos at the macroscopic level induced by the frustration of interaction, namely frustration-induced chaos, in a nonmonotonic sequential associative memory model. We succeed in deriving exact macroscopic dynamical equations from the microscopic dynamics in the case of the thermodynamic limit and prove that two order parameters dominate this la...

Topological frustration in an energetically unfrustrated off-lattice model of the helical protein fragment B of protein A from Staphylococcus aureus was investigated. This G-type model exhibited thermodynamic and kinetic signatures of a well-designed two-state folder with concurrent collapse and folding transitions and single exponential kinetics at the transition temperature. Topological frust...

Digital systems offer computational power and instant feedback. Game designers are using these features to create scaffolding tools to reduce player frustration. However, researchers are finding some unexpected effects of scaffolding on strategy development and problem-solving behaviors. We used a digital Sudoku game named Professor Sudoku to classify built-in critical features, frustration con...

Why do leaders incorporate the principle of setting high expectations into their management philosophy? Effective leaders know that people tend to live up to the expectations set for them. Simply put, high expectations lead to high performance. Let me tell you a story about high expectations leading to high performance. A chief executive officer (CEO) was frustrated with one of her senior manag...

PURPOSE The number of women in academic medicine has steadily increased, although gender parity still does not exist and women leave academics at somewhat higher rates than men. The authors investigated the reasons why women leave careers in academic medicine. METHOD Semistructured, one-on-one interviews were conducted in 2007-2008 with 20 women physicians who had left a single academic insti...

We apply a recently developed measure of multiscale complexity to the Gaussian model consisting of continuous spins with bilinear interactions for a variety of interaction matrix structures. We find two universal behaviors of the complexity profile. For systems with variables that are not frustrated, an exponential decay of multiscale complexity in the disordered regime shows the presence of sm...

We studied the self-similar properties of the phase spaces of two frustrated spin models and two lattice gas models. The two frustrated spin models were (1) the antiferromagnetic Ising model on a two-dimensional triangular lattice (1a) at the ground states and (1b) above the ground states and (2) the six-vertex model. The two lattice gas models were (3) the one-dimensional lattice gas model and...